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Creating this project was fun, because it was a combined effort that Keith and I made together. I wanted a wine bottle holder for our kitchen, but after looking in stores and online I couldn’t find one that I really liked. So, thinking like a LJ I decided to design one myself, and asked Keith if it was something we could do as a weekend project together. This is my original pencil drawing showing the design I came up with:
Next, I came up with a design for the carvings we would do on the front, and Keith drew a template on some MDF and cut it out so we could use it to trace it onto our wood. We decided to make it out of Maple, because 1. we had enough of it on hand already ...